US Patent Issued to General Electric on May 27 for "Outer nacelle with inlet guide vanes and acoustic treatment" (Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,021, issued on May 27, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Outer nacelle with inlet guide vanes and acoustic treatment" was invented by Arthur William Sibbach (Boxford, Mass.), Nicholas Joseph Kray (Mason, Ohio), Brandon Wayne Miller (Liberty Township, Ohio) and Gary Willard Bryant Jr. (Loveland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas turbine engine is provided having: a turbomachine; a fan rotatable by the turbomachine, the fan comprising a fan blade, the fan blade defining an outer tip along the radial direction, a trailing edge at the tip, and a length, LFB, at the tip along the axial direction; and an outer...